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Kneale, James Robert. "Lost in space? : readers' constructions of science fiction worlds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309071.
Full textBould, Mark Douglas. "Cyberpunk in retrospect : postmodernism and transcendence in science fiction after 1980." Thesis, University of Reading, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297701.
Full textAlphin, Caroline Grey. "Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88796.
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A dominant trend in cyberpunk scholarship draws from Fredric Jameson’s diagnosis of postmodernism as the logic of late capitalism, using Jameson’s spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality, and waning of affect, along with Jameson’s characterization of Baudrillard’s simulacrum to interpret postmodern cultural artifacts. For many cultural critics, the city of cyberpunk is thoroughly postmodern because parallels can be drawn between the cyberpunk city and the postmodern condition. However, very little work has considered the ways in which cyberpunk can defamiliarize the necro-spatial and necro-temporal logic of neoliberalism. This project moves away from more traditional disciplinary aesthetic methods of analyzing power and urban systems, such as interpretation and representation. It problematizes the biopolitical present in three different ways. First, by weaving in and out of an analysis of the narratives, discourses, and spatio-temporalities of cyberpunk and neoliberalism, I seek to produce epistemological interferences within these genres/disciplines, and thus, to disrupt the conceptual and lived biopolitical status-quo of late-capitalism. Second, this study problematizes accelerationism as a viable alternative to leftist politics and suggests in the end that accelerationism is a form of neoliberal resilience. And, finally, this study works towards offering a biopolitics that theorizes death in terms of ordinariness and suggests that biopolitics is still a useful analytic within neoliberalism. Methodologically, the project utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, pulling from political theory, genre studies, discourse analysis, and digital ethnographic research. Professionals and scholars interested in contesting neoliberalism will benefit from this study as it offers ways to problematize neoliberalism’s reality construction.
Rose, Margaret Anne. "Plotting the networked self : cyberpunk and the future of genre." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83839.
Full textHolz, Martin. "Traversing virtual spaces : body, memory and trauma in cyberpunk /." Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40222376s.
Full textTobin, Stephen Christopher. "Visual Dystopias from Mexico’s Speculative Fiction: 1993-2008." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437528785.
Full textMiranda, Huereca Rafael. "The evolution of cyberpunk into postcyberpunk: The role of cognitive cyberspaces, wetware networks and nanotechnology in science fiction." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/288302.
Full textSällström, Sällström. "Förändring av cyberpunkgenrens stereotypiska nattema." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-8189.
Full textNguyen, Mikael, and Johannes Wasberg. "En Urban Värld." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18743.
Full textIn this bachelor thesis we have examined technology such as projection mapping and projection, and how these could be used in the future with support from research sources such as science fiction, cyberpunk and futurism. In the thesis, we take a closer look at how these genres throughout history have speculated about different technologies and their ways of thinking, mainly with inspiration from cyberpunk, where we focus on the urban and its technology. We have with the help of a speculative design perspective as a basis and approach, created a prototype of a city based on a possible future where projection mapping has been developed and become a very common technology for society. During the course of the project, we have used methods such as mindmap, brainstorming, prototyping and speculative design to work our way forward. We have worked with these methods before and felt that they were the most effective for our project. We finally came up with a design that shows a possible future city where projection mapping is used everywhere to show advertising and the like on lots of buildings. This has been done using programs such as the Adobe programs to create what is projected and the mapping done in the HeavyM program, which is a program solely for projection mapping.
Toerien, Michelle. "Boundaries in cyberpunk fiction : William Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, and Neal Stephenson's Snow crash." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51639.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cyberpunk literature explores the effects that developments in technology will have on the lives of individuals in the future. Technology is seen as having the potential to be of benefit to society, but it is also seen as a dangerous tool that can be used to severely limit humanity's freedom. Most of the characters in the texts I examine wish to perpetuate the boundaries that contain them in a desperate search for stability. Only a few individuals manage to move beyond the boundaries created by multinational corporations that use technology, drugs or religion for their own benefit. This thesis will provide a definition of cyberpunk and explore its development from science fiction and postmodern writing. The influence of postmodern thinking on cyberpunk literature can be seen in its move from stability to fluidity, and in its insistence on the impossibility of creating fixed boundaries. Cyberpunk does not see the future of humanity as stable, and argues that it will be necessary for humanity to move beyond the boundaries that contain it. The novels I discuss present different views concerning the nature of humanity's merging with technology. One view is that humanity is moving towards a posthuman future, while some argue that humanity is not discarded, but that these characters have merely evolved to the next step in the natural development of humankind. Both these views deal with constant change, a notion advocated by both postmodernism and cyberpunk.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "Cyberpunk" literatuur ondersoek die uitwerking wat tegnologiese ontwikkeling in die toekoms op die lewens van individue sal hê. Tegnologie word gesien as tot moontlike voordeel vir die samelewing, maar dit kan ook 'n gevaarlike wapen wees wat gebruik kan word om die mens se vryheid in te perk. Die meerderheid van die karakters in die romans wat ek bespreek verkies om die grense wat hulle inperk te handhaaf in 'n desperate strewe na stabiliteit. Slegs 'n paar individue kry dit wel reg om verby die grense te breek wat deur multinasionale organisasies geskep word vir hul eie gewin. In hierdie tesis kyk ek na 'n definisie van "cyberpunk" en ek ondersoek die invloed van wetenskapsfiksie en postmodernisme op die ontwikkeling van die beweging. Die invloed van postmodernistiese denke kan gesien word in "cyberpunk" se fokus op veranderlikheid eerder as stabiliteit. "Cyberpunk" sien nie die toekoms van die mens as stabiel nie, en die argument is dat dit nodig is vir die mens om verby die grense te beweeg wat vryheid inperk. Die romans wat ek bespreek bevat verskillende sieninge oor die tipe samesmelting wat die mens en tegnologie sal hê. Sommige voel dat die kategorie "mens" permanent agterlaat gaan word, terwyl ander argumenteer dat individue slegs sal ontwikkel tot die volgende stap in die natuurlike ontwikkeling van die mens. Voortdurende verandering is die fokus van beide hierdie standpunte, en dit is ook die belangrikste fokus van beide "cyberpunk" en postmodernisme.
Causo, Roberto de Sousa. "Ondas nas Praias de um Mundo Sombrio: New Wave e Cyberpunk no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-12032014-123051/.
Full textThe objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the two main literary movements in English-written science fiction associated to postmodernism, the New Wave of the 1960s and the Cyberpunk Movement of the 1980s, establishing comparisons with science fictional production of the same periods in the First and Second Waves of Brazilian science fiction. Issues of literary politics will be constantly considered, as a way to relativize the theoretical charge of the arguments, trying to establish that intentions, proceedings, and literary programs exist inserted in personal, social, and even national contexts. This approach is supported by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieus concept of Field of Power, and also by a number of readers of his ideas. Taking from the works of critics and theoreticians such as Clive Bloom, Scott McCracken, Ken Gelder, Michel de Certeau, and Robert Scholes, this work claims that science fiction as a literary genre of popular roots can play out the role of a literature that performs a criticism of modernity without relying on those formal aspects associated with postmodernist literature, including fragmentary prose and the mixing of genres and literary codes. The research leads to a reflection concerning the situation of genre fiction vis-à-vis postmodernist fictions propensity for metafiction and experimentalism.
Calvert, Bronwen. "Virtual bodies : technology and embodiment in cyberpunk fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273464.
Full textLong, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.
Full textLong, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.
Full textInformationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The theoretical framework introduces a new informational theoretic re-framing of existing science fiction literary theoretic posits such as Darko Suvin's novum, the mega-text as conceived of by Damien Broderick, and the work of Samuel R Delany in investigating the subjunctive mood in SF. An informational aesthetics of SF proper is established, and the influence of analytic philosophy - especially modal logic - is investigated. The materialist foundations of the metaphysical outlook of SF proper is investigated with a view to elucidating the importance of the relationship between scientific materialism and SF. SF is presented as The Fiction of Veridical, Counterfactual and Heterogeneous Information.
Sjörs, Simon. "Fysikundervisningens science fiction." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fysikundervisningens didaktik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331199.
Full textScience fiction or rather popular media is a major part of everyday life in today's society. Students consume this media in their spare time and watch it for entertainment, possibly without even reflecting over the consumed content. This paper will focus on science fiction and how the well-produced media is received and reflected upon by the consumers, in this case upper-secondary physics students. Is there an opportunity for physics teachers or other natural sciences teachers to make good use of the interest and the pseudo science, that these media can convey, at school? Pupils have an idea of what physics is in school considering how physics education is laid out and the purpose of this work is to explore possible ways that these different worlds can meet. The work is aimed at evaluating a one hour session done with a student group consisting of 6 physics students in high school. The essence of the survey is to see what types of discussions occur after viewing one or more movie clips containing different physical phenomena. The physical events are shown in movieclips and can be explained by the physics we have today or there may be unrealistic events that cannot be explained. This kind of popular media is often based on creating emotional connections with the consumer which can take away the connection to reality and the real world physics. The theoretical framework that the study was based on is the concept of ownership of learning, this aims to consider how students evaluate their own ideas and take responsibility for following up on previous ideas or questions that they themselves expressed. That way the students hopefully find value in critical thinking and the retention of knowledge might increase.
Perna, Sandro Maria <1981>. "Science (in) fiction. Un CLIL de science à travers... la science (fiction)." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15543.
Full textvon, Knorring Ulrika. "”Läser science fiction utan att skämmas” : Om kvinnors läsning av science fiction." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-19875.
Full textFarwick, Christine. "Welcome to the interzone writing/reality in cult fiction of the 1980s and 1990s." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1002141680/04.
Full textJuhlin, Hampus, and Pontus Novén. "Science fiction i spelutveckling." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3890.
Full textDess populäritet är tydlig, men hur spridd är användingen av science fiction i dagens spelindustri? Hur kan man använda sagda populäritet för att slå igenom som utvecklare utan att försvinna i mängden? Detta arbetet studerar subgenrer, specialiserade undergrupper till science fiction som tar upp just de områden du vill utnyttja för din projektidé och hur du kan utveckla egna sådana om du inte finner vad du söker bland de befintliga.
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Langer, Jessica. "Science fiction and postcolonialism." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538778.
Full textGrimm, Gunter E. "Kometenforschung zwischen Aberglauben und Science-fiction - Comet research between superstition and science fiction." Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2002. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-08162002-150835/.
Full textGallagher, Ron. "Science fiction and language : language and the imagination in post-war science fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1986. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/90798/.
Full textWhite, Craig (Craig E. ). 1971. "Science fiction to science fact : the link between early science fiction and the space programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9572.
Full textJorgensen, Darren J. "Science fiction and the sublime." University of Western Australia. English, Communication and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0116.
Full textStolze, Pierre. "Rhétorique de la science-fiction." Nancy 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994NAN21004.
Full textThe study of science-fiction follows the principal division of classical rhetoric. Invention (content) : science fiction has no theme of its own except that of the individual in the face of authority, the context of a science fiction text is a collection of metaphors arranged under the form of allegory. Composition (structure): a science fiction text often consists of various literary devices, such as cut up, ellipsis, jigsaws, suspense. Elocution (stylistics): the study of large range of vocabulary, of a reduced syntax and stylistics devices (mostly figures of thought not of word as is the case in classical literature). Action (metatext): the study of titles, acknowledgements, first and fourth covers pages. Here, one must add a definition: science fiction is definite by is relationship or opposition with literature, non-mainstream literature, science, the literature of the fantastic and anticipation
HERNOT, DOMINIQUE. "Corps feminin : science et fiction." Paris 8, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA080492.
Full textOur work; based ont he study of science-fiction novels written between the thirties and the eighties, examines specific examples of some ways in which woman's body is presented, figured and disfigured, explores the impact of a religious and mythological tradition ont he science-fiction literature. Woman's body, just like an industrail product, is submitted to the market laws, symbol of woman's reification, result of a "machination", sex and technology, science and pornography being linked together. The ancestral feminine "natural" reproductive capacity is supplanted by the possibility of asexual reproduction. New symbolical and imaginary configurations are analysed in the light of recent research. Science and technology have profound effects on sex roles and definitions. Fiction, history, mythology and science, in their own language, ask the same questions about similitudes and differences between the sexes
Rood, Jason R. "Reconstructing a Science Fiction Autobiography." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3853.
Full textHadder, R. Neill (Richard Neill). "Techniques of Social-science-fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278249/.
Full textKazantseva, Anna. "Automatic summarization of short fiction." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27861.
Full textMäättä, Jerry. "Raketsommar : science fiction i Sverige 1950-1968 /." Lund : Ellerström, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7158.
Full textHall, Graham. "The Ambivalence of Science Fiction: Science Fiction, Neo-imperialism, and the Ideology of Modernity as Progress." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/948.
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Leperlier, Henry. "Canadian science fiction, a reluctant genre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0033/NQ61856.pdf.
Full textTravis, Mitchell. "Interrogating personhood : law and science fiction." Thesis, Keele University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602983.
Full textLeperlier, Henri. "Canadian science fiction a reluctant genre." Thèse, Université de Sherbrooke, 1998. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2707.
Full textAlsulami, Mabrouk. "Science Fiction Elements in Gothic Novels." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2016. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/47.
Full textShaw, Maya. "⏁⊑⊬⟊, ⏁⎎⎅☌⊬⍜⍀: Alien Languages In Science Fiction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194006.
Full textLeperlier, Henri. "Canadian science fiction: A reluctant genre." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1999.
Find full textRoss, Simon David. "Nostalgia in postmodern science fiction film." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23472741.
Full textOtto, Eric. "Science fiction and the ecological conscience." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013481.
Full textRingh, Maria. "Science fiction på folkbiblioteken : en studie av science fiction-böcker utifrån hylluppställning och BTJ:s påverkan på bibliotekens inköp." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101877.
Full textJohnson, Catherine Ann. "A New Meridian." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4006.
Full textSchüler, Anja [Verfasser]. "Neologismen in der Science Fiction / Anja Schüler." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1099858682/34.
Full textHolden, James. "Intersections : reading science fiction and critical thought." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445655.
Full textShaw, Debra Benita. "The feminist perspective : women writing science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386254.
Full textWood, Aylish. "Technoscience in the cinema : beyond science fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313246.
Full textRiga, Fryni. "Students' ideas in astronomy : science or fiction?" Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708755.
Full textMäättä, Jerry. "Raketsommar : Science fiction i Sverige 1950–1968." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7158.
Full textDrolet, Cynthia L. (Cynthia Lea). "Four Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500548/.
Full textWoods, Randy (Randy C. ). 1968 Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "A typological analysis of Canadian science fiction." Ottawa.:, 1993.
Find full textVollprecht, Sabine. "Science-Fiction für Kinder in der DDR /." Stuttgart : H.-D. Heinz, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375362135.
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